The NZA Posted October 14, 2006 Posted October 14, 2006 Taken from Amazon: It's difficult to create a film that's fast paced, exciting, and aesthetically appealing without diluting its dialogue. Run Lola Run, directed and written by Tom Tykwer, is an enchanting balance of pace and narrative, creating a universal parable that leaps over cultural barriers. This is the story of young Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). In the space of 20 minutes, they must come up with 100,000 deutsche marks to pay back a seedy gangster, who will be less than forgiving when he finds out that Manni incompetently lost his cash to an opportunistic vagrant. Lola, confronted with one obstacle after another, rides an emotional roller coaster in her high-speed efforts to help the hapless Manni--attempting to extract the cash first from her double-dealing father (appropriately a bank manager), and then by any means necessary. From this point nothing goes right for either protagonist, but just when you think you've figured out the movie, the director introduces a series of brilliant existential twists that boggle the mind. Tykwer uses rapid camera movements and innovative pauses to explore the theme of cause and effect. Accompanied by a pulse-pounding soundtrack, we follow Lola through every turn and every heartbreak as she and Manni rush forward on a collision course with fate. There were a variety of original and intelligent films released in 1999, but perhaps none were as witty and clever as this little gem--one of the best foreign films of the year. ...not much to add to that, just that its an awesome, really fun film, looking at alternate realities & such, and how different 20 minutes can really be. I agree that its one of the best foreign films that came from thatt time (that i saw, anyway), and the 3 or 4 of you here that havent caught it, really should.
MetalHeart Posted October 14, 2006 Posted October 14, 2006 I LOOOOOVE this movie. It's so amazing! and I love Franka
Lycaon Posted October 14, 2006 Posted October 14, 2006 I LOOOOOVE this movie. Ditto. By the way, I saw a movie a while back that had the same girl in it (can't remember the title). It involved a secret society of doctors that would kill people to experiment on them and advance their knowledge of medicine and the human body (Anahypocrates or something like).
the division of joy Posted October 14, 2006 Posted October 14, 2006 shit, i remember this film, i studied it as a project for german... "lola rennen" ashamed to say i can't remember much of it but what i do remember was fairly cool.....
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